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Tahe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
Nature  takes  care 
of  the  horse  when 
he  is  on  grass.  But  your 
horses  are  stabled  and  fed 
dry  feed — dry  hay,  oats,  corn, 
chop  feed.  That’s  the  cause 
of  constipation  and  stoppage 
of  bowels • — mighty  serious 
horse  troubles.  Keep  the 
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How  the  Auto  Changed  the  Farm 
Mr.  Curry  is  a  Rhode  Island  farmer 
wlio  has  worked  out  a  marketing  prob¬ 
lem  Let  him  tell  his  own  story : 
“Up  on  my  little  place  of  80  acres,  I 
keep  about  400  It.  I.  Reds,  and  calculate 
to  milk  eight  cows  regularly.  They’re 
grade  Jerseys.  Wife  makes  butter.  We 
have  quite  a  house  trade  for  that  and  the 
eggs.  My  garden  stuff  is  a  rhubarb 
patch  and  about  two  acres  of  sweet  corn, 
umy  be  an  acre  of  beans,  and  we  gener¬ 
ally  put  in  three  acres  of  potatoes. 
About  six  years  ago.  my  youngest  boy 
got  lonesome,  and  took  a  job  in  town. 
II i s  older  brother  had  gone  three  years 
before  to  another  State.  That,  left  me 
at  56  years  of  age  alone  witli  wife  on  the 
farm.  I  wasn’t  forehanded  enough  to 
quit  work,  so  had  to  keep  going.  I  made 
arrangements  with  a  Portuguese  neigh¬ 
bor  who  had  cleared  up  a  little  farm 
nearby,  to  work  on  my  place  by  the  day 
when  wanted.  I  kept  up  my  city  trade 
in  eggs  and  butter,  with  whatever  garden 
stuff  happened  to  be  ready  on  my  market 
days,  which  were  Tuesday  and  Friday  of 
each  week. 
“It  was  an  all-day  job  to  come  to  the 
city,  go  over  the  route,  feed  horse  and 
myself  and  get  back.  I  had  two  horses, 
but  there  is  not  much  one-horse  work  on 
a  farm  these  days;  pretty  near  every¬ 
thing  is  rigged  for  a  span,  mowers,  plows, 
tip-carts  and  the  like,  so  there  wasn't 
much  but  hand  work  that  could  be  done 
when  I  was  in  town  with  the  mare. 
“About  four  years  ago,  *twas  in  the 
Fall  of  1012,  a  young  fellow  came  up 
from  the  city  to  stop  with  me  for  a  week. 
He  had  been  a  regular  visitor  for  a  num¬ 
ber  of  years  on  hunting  trips,  hut  this 
time  he  came  in  his  new  automobile  in¬ 
stead  of  the  Danielson  car.  lie  arrives 
at  my  place  late  of  a  Monday  afternoon, 
and  starts  in  to  coax  me  for  a  hunt  next 
day  after  quail.  ‘Can’t  do  it.’  T  tells  him. 
‘It’s  my  market  trip  on  Tuesdays.’  ‘Well. 
I  will  wait  until  you  get  hack,  and  we 
will  go  after  dinner.’  he  replies.  ’There’ll 
be  no  after  dinner  for  me.  for  I  won't  get 
back  until  four  o’clock,’  says  I. 
“He  muses  awhile,  then  tells  me  to 
leave  the  mare  in  the  barn  and  that  he 
will  take  me  to  town  in  his  auto.  Well, 
the  upshot  of  the  matter  is,  that  at  five 
o’clock  the  next  morning,  my  usual  time 
for  starting,  we  sailed  out  of  the  yard 
and  .down  the  old  Hartford  Pike  towards 
Providence.  I  was  Some  busy  holding 
my  hat  on  and  steadying  my  two  egg 
baskets,  holding  10  dozen  each,  but  man¬ 
aged  to  observe  that  we  were  going  some. 
Wo  reached  my  first  customer  on  Messer 
Street  before  six  o'clock,  and  it  was  lucky 
that  they  were  old  friends,  for  1  had  to 
wake  them  up  to  deliver  their  eggs.  To 
cut  the  story  short,  we  were  hack  home 
in  Scituate  at  S.R0.  and  that  still  stands 
for  a  record  trip,  I  have  no  desire  to 
repeat  it,  but  I  learned  that  morning 
something  that  has  bellied  me  more  than 
any  other  thing  in  my  farm  work,  and 
it  is  this,  the  cost  of  the  time  and  en¬ 
ergy  that  is  lost  on  a  long  road  haul. 
“The  next  Spring,  1018,  I  bought  a 
second-hand  -  automobile  with  a 
delivery  body  for  $22o.  It  pinched  me 
some  to  do  it  at  that  time,  but  after  once 
delivering  my  produce  within  four  hours’ 
time,  I  could  never  be  content  to  take 
three-quarters  of  a  working  day.  It  has 
cost  me  less  than  a  horse  to  keep,  and 
the  first  price  was  less  than  a  team. 
From  May  to  December,  I  come  to  the 
city  three  times  a  week.  Witli  two 
horses  on  the  farm  all  of  the  time,  we 
have  put  into  tillage  seven  acres  more, 
and  cleared  some  stump  land  for  pastur¬ 
age.  I  can  carry  on  the  truck  a  half  ton 
easily,  which  is  an  extreme  load  for 
space  as  occupied  by  ordinary  produce; 
with  potatoes  and  grain  there  is  room  for 
fifteen  hundred  pounds.  I  never  trained 
myself  to  the  keeping  of  accounts,  ex¬ 
cept  with  customers,  but  I  do  realize  that 
during  the  past  two  years  I  have  sold 
more  stuff  with  less  work,  and  put  more 
money  aside  than  during  the  same  time 
previously. 
"The  best  part  to  me,  I  hough  it  might 
not  interest  you,  is  that  the  boy  has  seen 
that  old  farm  is  pretty  close  to  the  rest 
of  the  world,  since  his  dad  could  come 
to  town  in  the  same  time  he  took  iu 
getting  to  the  store  from  his  hoarding 
place  in  the  suburbs.  He  has  bought  the 
old  Salisbury  place  just  below  my  farm. 
April  15,  1910. 
I  am  going  to  let  him  have  my  old  auto 
truck  iu  the  Spring,  and  get  a  new  one, 
if  the  price  of  gasoline  will  be  decent.” 
F.  ir.  C. 
Trouble  With  Creosote  in  Chimney 
I  read  iu  The  It.  X.-Y.  recently  a  query 
asking  advice  about  what  to  do  to  pre¬ 
vent  a  chimney  leaking.  Here  is  my  ad¬ 
vice  and  experience,  fov  we  had  same 
trouble  for  years.  We  found  the  wood  is 
not  the  cause,  but  give  your  reservoir  air, 
so  the  steam  will  not  pass  through  your 
chimney,  by  keeping  reservoir  open,  or 
drill  a  few  holes  in  the  cover,  to  let  the 
steam  out.  Your  trouble  will  cease, 
Sanborn,  X.  Y.  w.  F.  w. 
On  page  47S  G.  A.  R.  says:  “We  have 
for  two  years  or  more  been  having  great 
trouble  with  the  pipe  of  our  kitchen  stove. 
It  is  a  range  with  all  the  usual  dampers, 
and  one  in  the  pipe,  midway  from  the  ceil¬ 
ing.  but  there  is  a  continual  dripping  of 
fluid  creosote  which  has  destroyed  the 
pipe,  woodwork  and  carpet,  cannot  be 
cleaned  from  anything.”  I  would  say  to 
G.  A.  It.  that  we  too  have  been 
troubled  with  creosote  dripping  from  the 
pipe  until  everything  it  touched  was 
ruined.  The  only  remedy  we  ever  found 
was  keeping  the  flues  cleaned  often.  The 
soot  that  accumulates  in  the  fines  is  very 
inflammable,  and  a  little  spark  will  often 
set  it  on  fire,  atid  away  goes  the  home. 
Keeping  tin*  flues  cleaned  out  is  the  best 
safeguard  we  know  of.  Our  method  of 
doing  the  work  is  this:  Fadin'  the  pipe 
in  the  kitchen  we  have  a  zinc  or  galvan¬ 
ized  ashbox  fitted  into  the  chimney  foi* 
the  purpose  of  cleaning  out  the  ashes. 
When  this  needs  to  he  done,  we  watch  for 
a  rainy  day.  and  when  it  comes  it  finds 
us  ready  for  action.  We  take  a  stick 
that  we  can  rim  up  into  the  flue  as  far  as 
possible,  wind  one  end  with  woolen  rags 
and  saturate  with  kerosene  oil  and  run  it 
up  the  chimney.  Then  with  a  lighted 
torch,  set  fire  to  the  woolen  rags  and 
away  goes  your  soot  up  the  chimney  flue, 
and  you  will  he  free  from  creosote  until 
the  flue  needs  another  cleaning.  Some 
will  say  “1  low  dare  you?  I  should  think 
you  would  he  afraid  of  burning  your 
house  up.”  Of  course  constant  watchful¬ 
ness  is  given  until  the  last  spark  disap¬ 
pears;  hut  we  prefer  doing  the  work  dur¬ 
ing  a  hard  rain.  j.  m.  w. 
A  condition  likely  to  occur  in  any  wood 
furnace  or  stove  where  pipe  and  chim¬ 
ney  conditions  are  just  right,  and  es¬ 
pecially  where  unseasoned  or  partly  sea¬ 
soned  beech  and  maple,  are  used  as  fuel. 
Relief:  (A)  See  that  there  is  a  good 
pocket  iu  the  chimney  underneath  the 
pipe  entrance;  in  other  words  keep  the 
chimney  free  from  soot,  so  the  condensed 
creosote  cannot  get  into  the  stovepipe, 
fill  Reverse  the  setting  up  of  the  stove¬ 
pipe  to  conduct  the  drip  downward  and 
forward  to  the  stove  instead  of  conduct¬ 
ing  smoke  to  the  chimney.  That  is.  in 
fitting  the  pipe  sections  the  small  end  of 
each  section  is  to  go  toward  the  stove, 
t  in  the  horizontal  run  keep  all  seams  at 
the  top  and  on  the  vertical  run  keep  all 
seams  toward  the  front.  A  method 
evolved  after  five  years  as  superinten¬ 
dent  of  schools  in  rural  district  where 
the  committeemen  furnished  usually  the 
lies)  of  wood,  hut  where  occasionally  dis¬ 
tillation  occurred.  To  remove  stains  use 
cheap  wood  alcohol. 
Now  York.  (has.  w.  ooonwix.  M.  D. 
Dried  Potatoes 
About  a  year  ago  I  sent  you  a  descrip¬ 
tion  of  drying  potatoes  in  Sweden  (as 
told  me  by  a  friend  from  that  country). 
Our  seed  potatoes  were  quite  large,  and 
in  cutting  them  to  single  eyes  there  was 
a  large  piece  of  middle  left.  I  boiled 
in  salted  water  and  mashed  fine  with 
wire  potato  masher,  dropped  a  layer  an 
inch  or  more  deep  in  slightly  greased 
pans  and  dried  in  oven  and  had  a  fine 
product.  They  dry  very  quickly,  but 
would  sour  if  dried  too  slowly.  Even  if 
slightly  browned  they  arc*  not  hurt 
Moisten  with  milk  and  fry  or  prepare  in 
any  way  like  a  cold  boiled  potato.  MeR- 
ed  with  a  little  hot  water  and  covere  I 
close  they  are  soft  in  a  very  short  time. 
Last  year  it  was  to  find  a  way  to  care 
for  surplus  potatoes.  This  year  will  be 
to  use  high-priced  ones  to  full  advantage. 
Virginia.  mbs.  c.  o.  barxard. 
